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Sun hats

:	Bedecktsamer (Magnoliophyta)
:	Dreifurchenpollen (Rosopsida)
:	Aster something similar (Asteridae)
:	Aster-well-behaved (Asterales)
:	Basket bloom plants (Asteraceae)
:	Sun hats

Scientific name

Echinacea

The sun hats (Echinacea) are a kind from the family of the basket bloom plants (Asteraceae).

Systematics

Original plant systematics after Arthur John Cronquist covered four Echinacea - kinds with two each, E. pallida (with the two E. pallida var. angustifolia and E. pallida var. pallida), E. atrorubens (with the E. atrorubens var. atrorubens and E. atrorubens var. paradoxes), E. laevigata and E. purpurea.

The nomenclature prevailing at present comes from Ronald McGregor, which nine Echinacea - kinds with ever two describes

E. angustifolia DC.
- E. angustifolia DC. var. angustifolia
- E. angustifolia DC. var. strigosa McGregor
E. atrorubens Nutt.
E. laevigata (Boynton & Beadle) Blake
E. pallida (Nutt.) Nutt.
E. paradoxes (Norton) Britton
- E. paradoxes (Norton) Britton var. neglecta McGregor
- E. paradoxes (Norton) Britton var. paradoxes
E. purpurea (L.) monk
E. sanguinea Nutt.
E. simulata McGregor
E. tennesseensis (Beadle) Small

Of it medically the three following Echinacea have - kinds the greatest importance attains:

Purpurfarbener or magenta sun hat (E. purpurea)
Blassfarbener sun hat (E. pallida)
sun hat (E. angustifolia)

Medical application

The sun hat is well-known as old welfare plant. Already the Indians of North America used the sun hat as welfare plant against coughs, sore throats and almond inflammation. Today it becomes the support with breath way or urinary passage Infekten, as well as outwardly with bad wounds welfare-end assigned. Above all the kinds Echinacea find purpurea, pallida and angustifolia use.

With the magenta sun hat (E. purpurea) the pressed out juice of the aboveground plant parts becomes (Echinaceae purpureae herba) or the preparation used as dte.

From some kinds of sun hat won medicines affect increasing the immune system. This is to take place among other things by means of increase of the number of the white blood corpuscles (Granulozyten, T-Lymphozyten).

Finished medicament

Echinacin

is a product WAD from GmbH, which contains as active substance the juice magenta sun hat. This is to strengthen the immune system. The range of application lies according to data of the manufacturer mainly with the prophylaxis and treatment of infections of the respiratory system as well as in the Wundheilung. In addition offer the means protection from recurring vaginalen mushroom infections (Candida albicans). For the medicine in Germany no prescription obligation exists.

Esberitox

is a mixture from excerpts of life tree points, sun hat root and in tablet form of the company Schaper & Also Esberitox is freely for sale in the pharmacy.

Yellow sun hat

Echinacea paradoxes

Effectiveness

In the investigations of the commission E of the German Federal Health Office data were collected to the effectiveness by medicinal plants according to strictly scientific criteria. Here the effectiveness was proven by press juice of the fresh herb of magenta sun hat. The effectiveness of the press juices of the roots of Echinacea angustifolia and Echinacea pallidae herba, i.e sun hat herb and blassfarbenes cone flower herb, had to be evaluated however negatively. Even their use due to the plant-own poisons (toxic effects) with unsettled risks for pregnant woman, and proven risks for Allergiker are advised against.

It is to show a new, Metastudie accomplished by scientists of the Stanford university however that Echinaceae medicines are with colds in principle ineffective. The again and again postulated immune-stimulating effect of Echinacea is missing after these results (Clinical Infectious Diseases, Bd.40, 2005, P. 807). However with it is not dealt more in greater detail, which kinds of the sun hat object of the studies were, a differentiation, which quite made the commission E.

A newer study, published in the "new England journal OF Medicine" (Bd. 353, P. 341) denies particularly of Echinacea angustifolia any effect to the roots and assigns them only a placebo effect. This study confirms the results of the Negativmonographie of the commission E for these plant parts.

However in the USA annually about 300 million US Dollar on Echinacea products are spent.